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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

A good story is told here upon two old
retired officers of the regular army.
These two officers were well advanced in
years when the rebellion began, and al
though in active service during the war,
were not specially distinguished. They
have been members of the army colony
here for many years, and before retire
ment managed to continue on duty al
and about Washington as members OF
boards and the like. At one of the
monthly meetings and dinners of the
Loyal Legion last winter these two ole
''Coburgers" were present. Indeed, the
Coburg family is always well represent
ed at gatherings that are to be served
with eatables and drinkables, and partic.
ularly drinkables. Upon the occasion al
luded to, during the progress of thC
speeches and songs, ''The Volunteers
was proposed by gentleman who haG
achieved distinction in the volunteer
army. "What is proposed?'' inquired
one of the old regulars of the other
'FWe are asked to drink to the volun
teers, was the response. ''Well," re
piled the first speaker, 1--WE of the regu
lar army can drink that. The volunteer;
helped us out a good deal. washing.
ton Letter
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

There is in Russia a district as large
as Ireland, known by the above title, and
wholly impossible from the size and
number of its morasses, in addition to
which it is covered with an impenetrable
forest of underground and tangled jun
gle, and consequently was utterly useless.
At present, 4, 600, 600 of acres have been
reclaimed and during next year it is pro-
posed that 300 600 more shall be taken
in hand by means of 1870 miles Of canals
and dikes. 1t is further reported that
upward of 600, 900 acres Of once useless
bog are now good meadow land, while
2,000. 600 acres Of impenetrable Jungle
have been brought into cultivation. IL
addition to all this, the engineers have
built 179 bridges, sunk SIT wells, and
surveyed and mapped 10000 square
miles OF land.
If such a scheme as this can be SO sue
cessfully carried out by Russia, why
should not some such plan be tried il
Ireland? A scientific contemporary, re-
ferring TO this question, saysg 1.-The
amount Of bog in Ireland would, Of
course, be child's play to Pinsl marshes
for somehow we are always confronted
with bog as the chief source of Irish diff
culties. If its annihilation will pay s(
well in Russia, it ought to do SO equally
in Ireland: nor should we forget than al
undertaking OF such magnitude would
bring immediate and constant work from
the very outset to half the able bodied
population Of the country" The sug
gestion is worth the attention of al
/ interested in the prosperity of Ireland
Chambers Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

London newspapers are filed with COM
plants OF the condition of the streets,
which are said to be in frightfully bad
order Rotten row, for instance, comes
too near its name, the road bed being a
quagmire Of filth and mud six inches
deep, while the wooden payements on
west end thoroughfares, including some
of the most fashionable, are full Of un-
comfortable ruts and dangerous holes.
Then there are growls because the buses,
which are twice as many and twice as big
as ten or fifteen years ago, loiter and
crawl and block the way. From all which
it appears that we must not look to
London for ideas for the improvement or
the relief of our highways. Boston
Transcript.
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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.


Origin of Some of the Sayings Which
Ono Hears Quoted Every Day.
From Bacon comes ''Knowledge is
power"
Thomas Southerne said that "Pity'a
akin to love-
Dean Swift thought that ''rread is the
staff of life. y
".All cry and no wool' IS found in But
ler's ''IIudibras.
Thomas Murgan qucried long ago:
''What will Mrs. Grundy say?''
Edward Coke was Of the opinion that
GA mans house was his castle"
Washington Irving coined the express
sion: ''The almighty dollar"
Goldsmith remarked: Ask me no ques-
tions and I'll tell you no fibs."
''Ian proposes but God disposes," " are
the words of Thomas hempis.
"When Greek joined Greek, then was
the tug of war; came from Nathaniel
Lee.
Charles Pinckney first said millions
for defense, but not one cent for tribute. :"
''Variety is the very spice of life" and
mot much the worse for WEAR" come
from Cowper.
Edward Young asserts that "Death
loves a shining mark" and "a fool at 40
is fool indeed. "
Macintosh gives, in 1901, the phrase
often attributed to John Randolph: wise
and mastery inactivity"
i'Of two evils have chosen the least, "
and ''The end must justify the means, y
are from Matthew Prior
The world is indebted to Colley Cibber
| for the very agreeable intelligence that
"Richard is himself again.
10, Of
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

Scattered through the several country
towns and villages Of Rochester, Free
town, Lakeville, Long Plain, Acushnet
and Myricks is peculiar race Of people
that stick close to their native backwOOds,
but on rare occasions emerge from their
seIf-chosen retirement to the neighboring
more pOpulouS towns of MiddleborO and
Wareham, and sometimes are seen on the
streets OF New Bedford, Taunton and Fall
River, the observed of ali beholders.
The local GppellatiOn that follows them
to all places is that of "Pink eyed Pitts
leys." Their popularity is pink eyes and
perfectly white hair. This striking singu-
larity is said TO have first made its appear
ance in family by the name of Pittsleys,
in Freetown, a century or more ago, and
spread through succeeding generations
among the offspring Of those who inter
married with the members of the family,
until many of the residents of this section
of a variety of family names as well as
thar OF Pittfey have members marked by
this popularity of the eyes and hair and
an accompanying facial expression chat is
odd in the extreme.
The old man Merchant Pittsley was
mink eyed, and he had nine children. All
five of his sons had pink eyes and white
hair, and one daughter was marKecc:: the
same way, but the other three girls had
as fine black eyes and dark hair as any
girl in town. They married, all hut one,
and had children, and some of their chill
dren had pink eyes and white hair, but
not au.-Brockt0n Mass. J Gazette.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

A horrible kind of traffic has Just been
discovered here by the river police. 1t is
customary for the boatmen of the Seine
to receive 10 francs for each dead body
which they find in the river after they
have given due notice of their discovery
at the Prefecture OF Police. This premium
is not paid in the two departments adjoin-
ing the Seine, and the Paris boatmen ac-
cordingly go down to the rivers and
canals in these departments (Seine-et-
Disc and Seine-et- Marne), where they re-
ceive the bodies of drowned people from
local river bank loafers and tow them up
to the metropolis. This kind of thing has
been going on for some time, ana was
only brought to light recently by the
police and octroi agents, who examine all
the boats coming into Paris. The agents
had just inspected q boat and were going
away when they saw two ropes astern of
the craft, These they pulled up and found
two dead bodies attached to them. Tho
boatman then admitted that he had paid
five francs for each body at Asnieres to n
man who had found them down the river.
The boatmen of the Seine have been fire.
quently taken to task for wrangling with
each other over the bodies of persons who
have been found drowned in the river
within the precincts of the city, but this
is the first time that such remarkable
speculation as that described has been re-
corded of them.-Paris Cor. London Tele-
graph.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

The daily reports of the physicians in
attendance upon his majesty the emperor
have uniformly reported satisfactory pro-
gress toward recovery. He goes out driv-
ing and walking every day when the
weather permits, and at times shows much
of his former capacity for long Journeys.
At the same time it must be confessed
that there is a very general and decided
uneasiness in regard to the case No ono
disputes the accuracy of the daily bull
letins, but there is a very general impress
sion that they do not cover all. There has
lately been a noticeable effort to secludc
his majesty and to prevent visitors from
seeing him. This appears ineonsist
with the reported Improvement in lis
health, ff slight restriction was put on
visitors some weeks ago when he was SO
weak, why shoGld they be enforced now
when he is so much strongerp There is u
very general belief that his naaiesty's
mind has become affected, ana that o
knowledge of this is to be kept from the
public for a time if possible. This belief
we most sincerely trust is unfounsed, but
it must be confessed that the ministers
and physicians are not proceeding in the
right way to correct it.-Rio News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

The habit of smoking cigarettes among
public officials is alarmingly on the in
crease. 1t is due no doubt to the fact
that the cigarette affords means Of sat-
isfying an appetite Or craving for tobacco,
and affords enough pleasure for the
smoker to last for the time it is wanted.
ga cigar or a pipe is too much of a
| smoke" said an official talking to an
American representative about the mat
ter, ''in the office, where you are liable
to be called on at a moments notice by
a lady or summoned into the presence of
a superior. In an emergency of the kind
the little thing can be thrown aside. The
| cigarette, you see, is cheap. a good
| cigar less than ten cents in price is not
! considered the thing to be seen in the
mouth Of an official with some authority.
| The cigarette also affords little pleasure,
and it is very convenient.
The same argument was found to pre-
vail among all the officials who were
seen using the little article. Army
officers as a rule were noticed to be adj
dicted largely to the habit of using the
cigarette. They found it cheaper in the
long run than cigars. 1t has now be
friend a cigarette If refused, the reply
is: "Well, used to smoke cigars, but I
find the cigarette is more convenient. -
Nearly all the young men, and, in fact,
not a few Of the old men in high social
life can be seen smoking them. At any
one of che receptions it is customary now
to see groups Of men in the gentlemen s
room putting away vigorously on the
''little delight It is rarity to see a
cigar used on such occasions. A large
tobacconist here stated in conversation
to-day that the sale of cigarettes was
enormous in this city and was not con-
fined 70 any class. He stated that the
government clerks bought largely OF
them, as they considered it much cheaper
for them to use on the sly during Office
hours. = Washington Cor. Baltimore
| American.
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A NEW TEXTILE PLANT.
The Herb from Which Mexicans Make
Pulque to BE More Useful.

Mr.. ID. p. Burden, of Sanford, began
two years ago to experiment with the
growth of an indigenous plant he dis
covered in the vicinity of Sanford, ma
guey, and n species like it, but of some
what finer fiber, which he calls by an
other Mexican name, agave. OF this
plant the beverage pulque is distilled.
Mr.. Burden came the other day to
Jacksonville to enlist our leading citizens
and capitalists in the new industry, and
has met with so much encouragement that
he will remain over for two or three days.
He has a dozen or more stalks with the
beautiful silvery gray fibers separated into
threads, any one of which is almost. or
quite, strong enough to use as ordinary
sewing thread. The plant is perennial,
and when once it takes root becomes as
firmly attached to the soil as Bermuda
grass. Mr.. Burden is enthusiastic over
his new discovery. He says it viii, with
out other labor than the most intermittent
attention, yield from $3.50 to $3.50 per
acre 1t will soon be one of the main
agricultural industries of Florida--fsrows
on the sandiest and cheapest barrens, thus
utilizing soil which has heretofore beer
held as almost worthless. 1t will take the
place of hemp and dethrone king cotton
in very great part. Two years ago he
found the plants in Sanford and now has
a good supply of shoots. 1t grows spon-
taneously without care or fertiliZing. \
cord made of the fibers twisted to the size
of an ordinary lead pencil will sustain
1900 pounds suspended for any length OF
time.
Every one who has seen and handled
the beautiful specimens becomes enthused
sl..ls - 1,,
oranges will not long be our main pro
duct. We advise our readers to hunt vi
Mr.. Burden, examine the fibeTs and heal
him discuss the merits of the new product
1t will not be many years before WI
shall see gentlemen dressed in full suit!
made OF strong and elegant cloth wovel
of Florida's own native plant, and theI
she will be in all respects more indie
pendent of the outside world thar an!
other of the states of the Union.-Jack
sonville News-lierald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

Superintendent Bates of the free tleliv-
cry service, post Office department, says
that the cities of the country are showing
great backwartlness in calling for tho
service to which they are entitled under
the law passed last winter giving IL to
towns of ten thousand inhabitants or to
towns whose post office receipts reach
SO 600 per year. "Why," he said, 1--WE
get letters every day from towns entitled
to the service indignantly referring to the
fact that we have given the service to
rival towns Of the same size and neglected
them, They will make no application for
the service, and we can send no inspectors
to the town except upon application. The
fact of it is that large number of these
towns don't ask for the service because
such movement is discouraged by the
postmaster. He is afraid that if the serv-
ice is established his box rents will fall of
and his income decrease. lie is aided by
the grocers near the post Office, by the dry
goods house, and by the man in whose
store the post Office is kept--all Of whom
are interested in having the crowd come
TO the post Office for its mail, instead OF
having ii carried to them. AS a result
citizens groan and complain because IL
neighboring town gets the service and
their own town is neglected by the post
Office authorities, Towns will get the
free delivery system when citizens take il
into their own hands to make an appfica-
ton to the department for it. New York
Ct1t1
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

Yes" said Special Officer Frank Har-
rigan, of the Pennsylvania railroad, 1--WE
railroad officers have TO look at queer
things sometimes and strange occurrences
fall to our lot but the most sickening
event l ever experienced was at Thirty
seventh street, Philadelphia II was n
dark night, and remember well that the
leverman in the tower had to call up tho
station agent to help him move the lever.
A dispatch arrived about that time from
the depot which stated that passing train
had killed a man at or near the station.
Investigation revealed the horrible fact
that man had been killed there and that
it was the poor fellows heart which had
fallen into the switch and clogged it so
that it was impossible for the leverman
In the tower to make the lever work. ~
West Chester News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

The progress Of cremation in this coun-
try as a means Of disposing of the bodies
of the dead is not very rapid. The COM
pany that was organized year ago, and
that built the furnace at Fresh Pond, has
had only about 100 subjects" during
the year, and the average is about the
same for the past month as for the eleven
that preceded it. 1t is most noteworthy
fact that nearly all the bodies disposed of
in this manner We're those of persons who
directed this action in their last will and
testament. Public sentiment is as yet
decidedly in favor os burial; and, unless
sanitary considerations become over
whelming, it will d0sbtless remain SO for
a long time to come. THE Epoch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

According to The Detroit Tribune the
painting. Last Hours of Mozart" lately
purchased by Gen. Alger, Of Michigan, is
so realistic that it affects people to tears.
Miss AIger says: ever since the picture
has been in the house it has seemed like a
funeral | don't think anybody has
smiled, and as for a hearty laugh, any
thing of Chat kind would seem to be alto
gether shocking and out of place. II
seems as if the great Mozart is actually
dying right here in the house, and get
never really dies. " 1t must be a cheerful
sort OF rtcture to have about the house.
Chicago Tribune.
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The Mistress of the White House.

The mistress of the White House
stands in a position more trying by far
lHan that of any crowned sovereign in
Europe. Everything and anything is
expected Of her. She must unite all the
qualities that go to make up thorough
lady; she must pass the ordeal of hours
of what may be called public servitude
without betraying the least fatigue or in
hospitality, whether her guests at
crowded levee come from the wild woods
or from the most cosmopolitan center;
she must understand the art of informal
receptions be, like foreign royal
ties, ''gracious, "condescending' and
''amiable,' and at the same time be
thoroughly democratic; otherwise she
will be severely handled by all the
sovereign people" who constitute them
selves her critics. She has not the refuge
Of seclusion or of divine right which
belongs to a queen; and yet her very
critics demand from her as much as
though she had been born to the purple
and received the training necessary for
the duties of her station.-Lippincott' s
Magazine,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

In perfume shop Iwatched some en-
ployes the other day who were doing up
packages of toilet articles to be sent out
by mail and messenger. The bottles were
wrapped in peculiar kind of brown pa
per, the inner surface Of which appeared
like a miniature corduroy road. An ex-
animation of the material showed it to be
specially prepared straw paper with a
corrugated inner surface, by which the
glassware is given safe and secure bed
in which to rest for transportation IN the
mails or otherwise. 1t is one of the novel
inventions of American ingenuity. l am
told that the inventor has made neat
little fortune from its introduction. New
York Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21
A PhiIanthropio woman,s PIap.

An industrial school for boys is pro-
posed at Chicago by Mrs. Celia w. Wal
lace, n rich and philanthropic woman.
She wants an incorporation with a capital
of $J0G,000, and n large and interested
public support. The ilca is 10 have tha
institution both home and school, and, be-
sides the dormitorics and workshop, there
will be n military drillroom and n school
house, where the rudimcnts Of an educa-
ton can be acquired while the boy Is learn
ing trade in the workshop Homeless
waits win be taken there and have a
chance. There will he nothing to prevent
any boy going back TO the street IL he
chooses, and this liberty will naturally
sift out the hopeless ty bad, leaving in tho
school those worth saving. IN. Y. Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21
4 Bonanza in Honey

Prison Director Sonntag recently moved
into the Orr residence at San Rafael
During the late hot weather he was sur
prised to find streams OF honey dripping
from the caves of his house. Bees were
seen to come and go from the kitchen
roof, and on removing board Mr.. SOnn-
rag discovered bonanza Of honey ten
feet long by two feet thick. He managed
to take out 100 pounds Before the find
could he utilized the bees had to be killed,
but at last accounts there were enough
left to make that particular part of the
residence uucGnfortable.-Alta California.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

''Say, what yer goin' to do with that
old nag?" shouted a passing cart driver
to man who was experimenting the re-
moval of lifeless horse on Willow street
"Lots," answered the other. "We'n
first of all ship the old hulk to the glue
factory. There the hide will be taken off
and sent to tannery, and the flesh re
moved from the bones. The bones are
very valuable, and when the frame is
separated they are distributed into piles.
Shin bones are worth $40 ton. They
are used for knife handles. Thigh bones
bring more. They so to Europe at $75 u
ton, and come back here after while in
the shape of tooth brush handles. The
foreleg bones are made into paIasol han
dies, collar buttons, trousers buttons, and
other small articles of usefulness. Glue
comes from the water in which the bones
are boiled, while tho dust from the saw
ing of the bones makes excellent medicine
for cattle and poultry. Al the rest that
can't be made into bone black is ground
up into powder and sold for fertiliZing
purposes.
"Wel, who'd thought that old carcass
was wuth so muchp' exclaimed the car
ter in surprise.-Philadelph Bulletin.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

The assay Office is about melting up the
last 100000 of 3, 200, 900 trade dollars re-
ceived from the sub treasury. The silver
is run into bars of about 200 ounces each,
and these are stored in the assay office, re-
quiring in this form about one-third the
storage space required by the dollars.
The superintendent has taken the precau-
tion to assay the coins, and finds them
remarkably close TO the standard, in no
case varying more than one-thousandth of
l per cent.-BostOn Transcript.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21
New Kind of Brick.

A new variety of pressed brick, made
of ashes and cinders, is now being manu-
factured in San Francisco. Says The
Examiner, of that city ''The result is a
brick of unusual solidity, handsome in
appearance, Of q most durable character
and made entirely without burning or
baking. All manner of experiments have
been tried with the bricks in the way of
subjecting them alternately to intense
cold and heat, but without any injurious
effect. The best quality have been boiled
for hours, without cracking or showing
any signs of dissolving. New York
Tribune,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

Gov. Hill has Just bought musical
clock, the mechanism of which is por-
tion of magnificent music box which
Frederick the Great presented to q favor
ite lady of his court. 1t is formed of
sweet toned wooden flutes mellowed by
age, every one being more than century
old. The box was treasured in the lady's
family for generations, but three years
ago it came under the hammer in Berlin.
philadelphia Times
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A West Virginia Cave.

Near Anderson, w. Va, workmen dis
covered the opening to cave, which has
been eXploral for mile. 1t contains all
the characteristics of well regulated
cave-a stream of clear running water,
stalactites, stalagmites and large cham
bers, and bids fair TO rival the best known
caves in the country.-Chicago Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

Spots can be found all over the pine hills
of the southern states as healthy as any
forests in the world. Some invalids are
beginning to understand this fact and
profit by it. At least a million invalids
and wealthy people in the north and west
would winter in these southern pine hills
and on the gulf shore if they knew the
honest truth about the climate of the
southern states.-Chicago Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-21

A popular society fad in New York is to
have books bound in colors to harmonic
with the complexion on dress of the reader.
One wealthy belle has had Shakespeare
bound in brilliant red because it adds to
the richness of her brunette complexion,
while blue eyed damsel reads TennysOn
from becoming cover of blue and gold.
Atlanta Constitution.